quailery

English

Etymology

quail +‎ -ery

Noun

quailery (plural quaileries)

1. A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal.
   • 1880, Allan Octavian Hume, The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, page 142:

     A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time.

   • 1891 March, C.T. Buckland, “Some Birds in India”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 17:

     In Behar every prudent English resident keeps a quailery, as well as a tealery, on his premises, and a dish of fat quail is a very agreeable and wholesome change of diet when the weather is hot.

   • 1891, Robert Edward Forrest, Eight Days, page 33:

     Here are the fowl-house and the sheep-house, and the goat-house, and the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery, and the columbarie, and the extensive godowns, and all the other adjuncts of a large Anglo-Indian establishment of the olden time.

   • 1895, Sir Edward Braddon, Thirty Years of Shikar, page 64:

     The quail is notorious for its quarrelsomeness : being confined in cage or quailery, it has to be kept in the dark if it is to be kept alive.